Is School Choice Racist?
According to the leadership of the American Federation of Teachers, the opinion page of the New York Times, and the...
L’Affaire Middlebury
Economist Herbert Stein is famous for the quotation “If something cannot go on forever, it will stop.” For many years,...
Kansas City, Economic Development, and Homicide
Kansas City desperately wants to grow, and we’re spending or diverting tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer money each...
Kansas City and “Fraudulent” Crony Capitalism
President-elect Trump has talked a great deal about the need for massive and widespread infrastructure spending. Many people agree that...
Dodging the Stadium Bullet
Think of those times when you ignored your parents’ warnings about some behavior (smoking, staying out too late, etc.) because,...
Even Krueger Agrees: $15 Minimum Wage Too High
Alan Krueger, professor of economics at Princeton, has weighed in on the minimum wage debate. Writing in the New York...
Opportunity and Mobility in Missouri
Earlier this year, researchers from Harvard released a blockbuster study on economic mobility in the United States. The conclusion: neighborhoods...
Is there evidence of a “teacher exodus” from Kansas?
If you take the media’s account of the state of the teaching profession in Kansas seriously, you’d think that there...
Another Go at Raising the Minimum Wage?
Mayor Slay of Saint Louis announced that his administration will back a proposal to increase the city’s minimum wage. The...
Seeded With Tax Cuts, Kansas Harvests the Benefits
As first appearing in the Wall Street Journal: Liberals love to hate Sam Brownback, and for good reason. The Kansas...
Show-Me Testimony on Minimum Wage
This brief video clip shows my testimony before the City Council of Kansas City on an effort to raise the minimum wage...
What Does It Mean to “Have Health Care”?
This question has come into sharp focus just five years after the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) passage. Does it mean having...
Streetcars Have Lost the Left
President Lyndon Johnson famously said of Missouri-born news anchor Walter Cronkite, “If I’ve lost Cronkite, I’ve lost America.” Johnson was...
Kansas City, Millennial Magnet?
In a previous piece, we examined some of the research dealing with millennials, where they choose to live and whether any...
The Myth of the Urban Millennial
The debate over what millennials want continues to rage in Kansas City and elsewhere. City leaders are spending gobs of...
Krugman Upended By His Own Logic
In a recent New York Times column, Paul Krugman made the assertion that “self-proclaimed libertarians deal with the problem of...
Thomas Piketty and Mises’s ‘The Anti-Capitalistic Mentality’
As first appearing at Mises.org: Ludwig von Mises, a mentor to Friedrich Hayek and a major figure in economics in...
Give Tax Cuts A Chance
Perched atop his ivory tower, Paul Krugman, a Nobel Prize winning economist, has declared that the tax cuts enacted by...
It’s Not The Money
The New York Times published an op-ed titled “What’s the Matter With Kansas’ Schools?” about legislative efforts to cut funding levels...
Surprise! Rural America Not Seeing Lower Insurance Prices, Either
This is arguably old news for Show-Me Daily readers, but lest there be any doubt, the New York Times helpfully...
